SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.) Years later he would become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital.)

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. Thats real money."

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. STOKED!!!!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While supporting the LGBTQIA+ community at-large is a personal interest of mine , I must admit that my attendance at this most-recent ROMBA event was purely motivated by self-interest. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc. Instead of believing we always have the right answers, we pursue perspective.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Two of my co-founders prefer to work late into the night while I enjoy starting work early in the day. Because we have different energy levels at different times, it would be counterproductive for my co-founders to work at 9AM (just like it would be inefficient for me to be working at 2AM).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I can now give back to my community in ways that would not have been possible earlier. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- One was the realization of what I was really good at doing – helping organizations with starting and/or fixing their sales operation. 14- To solve issues in the beauty community.

Los Angeles 133

Los Angeles Entrepreneur New Jersey Technical Review 133

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. Texas exports more than California and New York combined.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. There are things you can get for sales force if you use salesforce.com. So, for example, if you’re in a company with a thousand sales people, using salesforce, I also guarantee you they are not using Gmail. There are Microsoft outlook addo-ns that do exactly like this.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

MediaPRO Community. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Thanks for being part of the FOLIO: community. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Advertising/Sales. Marketing/Communications/PR. Sales/Business Development. --> ENTER a CITY and/or SELECT STATE.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys. But this story is not about Convergent.

Entrepreneur 290

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 290

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. that red-shifts the sun’s spectrum for improved crop yield and quality. Plants love it.

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Technical Review Startup Harvest .Net 54

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

I decided to start Noble Brewer to give great homebrewers an easy and legal way to share what they love doing and to give craft beer lovers a way to try amazing beers that the homebrewing community is creating. So when we co-founded Babbel in Berlin in 2007, we just wanted to develop something better than the status quo.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley North Carolina Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales. The new administration has helped some of their ranks to cross over into the Federal community too.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s the story of Zima Media, and the co-founders, Michael Zima and Damien Bouvier. Growing today, there is a thriving community of entrepreneurs and incubators for young talent. It is already incredibility simple to start a Facebook ads campaign, but it is equally challenging to generate sales.

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North America Entrepreneur South America America 67

Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

There are similarities between IR35 in the UK and AB5 in California , US. IT team members working on the core product, sales and customer support, marketing, etc. Usually, the remote workers work from home or co-working spaces and visit the company office once per month or even once per quarter. How to classify a remote worker?

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Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2%

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Founder of JackCards.com. This year, TEDWomen focuses on the question: How are women and girls reshaping the future? In any case, the valley is small.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Founder of JackCards.com. This year, TEDWomen focuses on the question: How are women and girls reshaping the future? In any case, the valley is small.

Technical Review 40

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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